I tried this game several months ago and it looked interesting. However I was getting disconnected every 5-15 minutes. Needless to say after a few days of this I quit.

So, have they fixed this problem yet?

At this point, I have never had a disconnect other than times in which I legitimately lost connection to the internet. It's annoying when it happens because it doesn't log me out, and for that matter, I can't log out. I just get a popup and wander around the world until I click Exit Game and have to reload the whole thing.

Right now, the current hot topic is huge lag issues in Turba, mostly centered around the North Watchtower, though I'm not sure if anyone's figured out why. Setting your graphics settings as low as possible remedies this. It's not much, you'll still likely get severe lag, but it's better than literally crashing from it. Otherwise the further away you get from the El-Rima Desert, the better.

I haven't been to Crescent or Parness since the update, so I don't know what the lag situation is there.

I quit playing cause I was disconnecting and the support team did not seem to care.  I stopped the disconnects by setting affinity to CPU 0 only (AMD Dual Core CPU)  and reported that to the support team to which they responded glad I corrected the issue.  I did not consider the issue corrected so I quit..

well as of playing this game for almost a year, ive known of this disconnection factor

and well disconnecting from the game can come from pop ups, internet connections, etc.

well as of for me it came from being afk from the computer itself as the game was running. after i come back 10-20 minutes later, ive been disconnected so i just reconnect and all is fine